America's Newsreel Album Part 1

Description

This newsreel film, hosted and narrated by Dennis James, contains three segments. The first profiles the exploits of Mildred Ella ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias, a woman considered the greatest woman's athlete of her time. The second segment on the "Prohibition Era" contains footage of Charleston dancers, famous speakeasy operator "Texas" Guinan, singer Al Jolson, President Warren G. Harding as he played a tuba, President Calvin Coolidge as he wore an Indian headdress, Eugene Debs as he left prison, Al Capone, and Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The last segment is a humorous feature on the "crazy cars" of the 1920s.

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Commercial Motion Picture Films